How to ride bear-back
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Riding across a river bareback is tricky enough ... let alone trying to do it on a bear's back. But that didn't stop this plucky young cub from giving it a go, when he leapt aboard his mother as she tried to catch a salmon. The youngster clung on for dear life as she galloped across the shallows after the slippery fish in scenes that better resembled a game of Buckaroo than a predator's hunt for her supper.